Shrewdly, Lillian also argues from history and then deflates her husband's argument as Cather gives her one of the key insights of the novel: "And this reserve--it becomes in itself ostentatious, a vain-glorious vanity" (36-37).

Cather and her colleagues recently completed a claims database study that found psoriasis to be significantly associated with lower rates of pregnancy and live births in women aged 35 years or younger.

What we have in My Antonia is provincial material viewed through experiences of world literature, history, and travel--the experiences Jim shares with Cather herself, whose survival struggle to establish herself as a novelist (and not merely a disciple of Henry James and imitator of Edith Wharton) and find her own subject is revealed in this novel.

When Alice Munro's Recent collection, The View from Castle Rock, appeared in 2006, some of its reviews had an intriguing echo of the critique Willa Cather received from Granville Hicks and Lionel Trilling in the 1930s.

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